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Actors Nakamura Hikotarô as a kamuro, Ichikawa Yaozô III as Sukeroku, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as a vendor of white sake


中村彦太郎の禿、 三代目市川八百蔵の助六、 二代目市川門之助の白酒売
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1784 (Tenmei 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.9 x 26.2 cm (15 5/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13912
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #67, pl. 243 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #82; Ukiyo-e shûka 5 (1980), pl. 169 (right sheet of diptych); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), pl. 107; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #611, pl. LXXX
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych.

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo-zakura
Theater: Nakamura
助六由縁江戸桜(すけろくゆかりのえどざくら)
中村
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.